Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House retaliates on June 27 by calling Dean the "mastermind" of the cover-up and Mitchell his "patron." But the President's position is weakened by the release the same day of the "enemies lists" by the Senate committee...
Nixon and President Hafez Assad are expected to discuss the Geneva peace conference and possibilities of U.S. aid for Syria, whose main patron has long been the Soviet Union. Last week Kissinger said that the $100 million now in the Administration's foreign aid bill as a "special requirements fund" could be used for Syria. Assad and Nixon will probably announce the resumption of diplomatic relations, which Syria broke off when the U.S. helped Israel during...
...Norman Vincent Peale and the Rev. Billy Graham were for a time well publicized White House habitues. The East Room Sunday worship service was a Nixon creation. The President was an enthusiastic patron of the various prayer breakfasts round Washington...
France's King Henri III first dropped in for dinner on March 4, 1582, and became a regular patron of the Parisian hostelry. Since Harry's day, its habitues have ranged from musketeers to movie stars, presidents to prelates. Withal, La Tour d'Argent has remained one of the brightest, most tenacious stars in world gastronomy.* Kingdoms and republics have passed, boulevards and bridges have been renamed, heroes have risen and fallen-and been denied tables -but La Tour d'Argent has remained as immutable as its name, a tower of salivary silver. To this...
...dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail, who proceeded to cook her a steak. "It was the worst I've ever had," Ava said. The late Winthrop Rockefeller, who liked to dine on Terrail's homard à 1'Américaine and Pouilly Fuissé, once humbly asked le patron if he would accept a personal check for his meal. Novelist James Jones asked Terrail to cash his check for $1 million. "I'm short of cash," said the owner, "but I'll open a charge account...